Remake of an older meme, just to add some extra pixel.

  • joeshmoe@infosec.pub
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    25 days ago

    what is recommended cheap ass laptop to install mint on? Something I can get used or refurbished

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      The older Dell Latitude models are quite nice IMO. Like the 5000 series ones.

      You can snag them for fairly cheap from Free Geek on eBay.

      • joeshmoe@infosec.pub
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        23 days ago

        thanks will look into them! looks like Dell Latitude 5420, Intel Quad-Core i5-1145G7, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, for about $250 will be an upgrade to be 10year old lenovo!

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          22 days ago

          lol I got a Dell Latitude 5420 with nearly the same specs, mine only came with 8GB of ram so I upgraded it to 32GB. I did that though almost 2 years ago when prices were sane though.

          I’ve also loaded mine with Kubuntu, it came with Linux Mint though which was cool.

          • joeshmoe@infosec.pub
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            12 days ago

            you still run Kubuntu on your dell? Other folks will have to use it and mint is straight forward to use so I will just go with that again. I did find a better price through for about $160 shipped through free geek but now I gotta get a charger. It arrives this week so excited :)

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    25 days ago

    Using a 11 years old 300€-laptop with 15 years old Ubuntu installation as my main private PC.

    Honestly, feels more snappy than ever compared to my brand new Core-i9 2000€ company laptop running Microslop including an increasing amount of mandatory business and security addons…

    • chisel@piefed.socialEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Sorry, but continuously analyzing all running processes, blocking half of them, and rerouting all of your TLS traffic through a MITM proxy with self-signed certs that break 25% of your software is 100% necessary to ensure the confidentiality of business secrets. And what would our KPIs be without our company-sponsored keyboard logger and mouse tracker?

      Also, our internal process relies on this software from 1973 with endless half-baked additions that takes 10 minutes to open, uses 32GB of ram, and idles at 80% cpu and 90% disk iops for some reason.

      No, you can not have permissions to delete the icons on your desktop or rearrange your taskbar. Stop asking.

      • klangcola@reddthat.com
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        25 days ago

        Add to that doing field work with slow and unreliable internet, and it literally takes 30 seconds to open the context menu in explorer. Gotta wait for corporate.exe to time out first. At least opening the start menu doesn’t literally take 30 seconds anymore, after a regedit change to stop it from searching online first.

        • durinn@programming.devEnglish
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          25 days ago

          And then the IT department announced that they are finally replacing our obscure, archaic “VPN solution”. I asked, “you are building the new solution on top off WireGuard, right? 😊”

          IT: … … 😊

          Me: … … 🥲

          They ended up BUYING ANOTHER “VPN SOLUTION” INSTEAD 😭